Friends. Are. Gold.
Sunday June 3 2012 Brooklyn, NYC Disclaimer! Disclaimer! I’m iffy about ‘street style’.* It was 12 months ago that I started to hate Scott...
Friends
Over the next few weeks guest bloggers will be sharing their take on Love, Lycra and Surprizing Adventures.
Guest Blogger: Celestina Sumby on sex education and menstruating in the 80’s
I remember painfully clearly how at the age of ten my mother sat down on the end of her marital bed and patted the floral, rose pink covers beside her. We could see ourselves in the dressing table mirror opposite and instinctively I knew exactly what was coming. I closed my eyes and recited a silent prayer, ‘please, God, no.’ There was an awkward hush as my mother adjusted...
Gem Wilder’s Tips for turning Negative Poverty into Positive Poverty
I am poor. Quite poor. Not “I’m not buying any lattes this week to make up for that pair of shoes I just bought” poor. Rather, “I have an appointment with WINZ” poor. But I’m cool with that. I’m actually pretty happy. If you’re also pinching pennies here are some of my tips to help you turn negative poverty into positive poverty. 1.Free stuff. I bet there’s a...
12. Mrs Hempel: The Mommy Issue
Brooklyn, NYC Sex and the City sometimes leads to mommies in the city – and it does so now more than ever, with a 26 percent rise in the number of 5-year-olds in New York from 2000 to 2004 – and growing. In addition – as everywhere – breeders are trending to stay put, close to their hip hoods post push (or likelier, C-section), instead of heading out to...
Nothing but a good time
Fellow retired Real Hot Bitch and younger sister, Charlotte Meyer reviews Rock of Ages. Nothing but a good time Last Sunday, on my way to brunch, I bought a pair of electric blue, snakeskin print, skinny jeans. They are amazing. They make me feel like a rock star. I took them home, hung them in my wardrobe and spent the rest of the week wishing I had a rock’n'roll lifestyle...
10. Mrs Hempel: One Degree Organic Bacon**
Thursday June 8 2012 Brooklyn, NYC In contrast to the previous night’s divey excesses, this evening was exceedingly sensible – shopping and laundry – but no less exciting for the wee frisson of celebrity brought by the former, and the iconic Americana of the latter. Shopping took place at the Greene Hill Food Co-op , where the organic produce is bounteous, the 2D design witty and cute, the checkout...
The wok hangs there!
Sarah Laing, a friend of mine and fellow mother, writes a very funny blog called Let be me Frank. Her post today is called Other People’s Success, it is brilliant and cringingly honest and I thought other people might find it refreshing! Here is a wee bit of it.
Guest Blogger, Mary Parker: The Day of Dupree
See that girl on the left? That girl with the lovely turn out and an ecstatic look on her face? That girl with long slender limbs? That’s me. Unbelievable when I look at it now. Since you are no doubt interested I will tell you I am wearing hot pink ¾ length lycra tights and a matching pink lycra leotard with tiny blue raised dots. To make the...
Go Go Feminism.
Guest Blogger: Devon Smith draws feminism. I have always been a feminist. Assuming you consider playing with the same dump trucks your older brother did an act of feminism, which I certainly do. Later, of course, there would be ponies and the ever-horrific barbie doll but, that was my choice as a (tiny) woman so I don’t think that reflects at all poorly on me. When I was 18...
All Due Respect.
Gabe catches up on some culture. What was I doing in the early 2000’s? Getting up, boiling jugs, gazing out windows, oh yeah there was this job I had-who cares? Rip-Van-Winkeling it. Obviously I wasn’t watching The Sopranos. I am now though, episode by bloody episode. Uncle Junior appeared in a dream of mine a few nights ago, then my husband woke pale-faced, muttering ‘I owe Tony some money”....
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